Horse-collar



(No Model.)

0. MOLLENOOFP HORSE COLLAR.

No; 445,069. Patented Jan. 20, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER MOLLENCOFF, OF MAL'lA, ILLINOIS.

-HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4=45,069, dated January20, 1891 Application filed September 23, 1389. Serial No. 324,785. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. CHRISTOPHER MOLLEN- COFF, of Malta, in the county ofDe Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Horse-Collars; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a particular construction in horse-collarsprovided with a covering of felt on the inner portion thereof where thecollar comes in contact with the horse with a view to the absorption ofthe perspiration and the consequent lessening of discomfort and chafing.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my improvement, Figure 1 is atransverse section of one side of a collar containing my Improvement.Fig.2 illustrates in plan view the two unequal bodies of felt whichenter into the composition of the collar, laid one upon the other, withthe margin of one inside that of the other, in order to give the properform of seam at the junction of the felt and leather along the outermargin of the collar.

A in Fig. 1 represents the body of the collar, and B the roll. The bodyisinclosed between an outer layer of leather (1 and an inner doublelayer of felt a a the outer of said sheets of felt a being directly incontact with the shoulders of the horse. The two sheets of felt a and aare cut of unequal size, as indicated in Fig. 2, one being narrower thanthe other and terminating on its outer or convex edge at a distance fromthe corresponding edge of the sheet or layer a These two layers a a offelt will commonly be stitched together or otherwise connected more orless permanently near the the outer edge of the inner sheet, asindicated by the rows of stitching s, so that the double body of feltpresents only the thickness of one sheet at its outer curved edge. Thisedge is sewed with the leather layer a, forming an inseam, as clearlyshown in Fig. 1,the single layer of fe1t.which is of the usualcommercial thickness, being bent about equally with the leather to whichit is sewed, so as to give a neat external appearance, much the same asthough two thicknesses of leather or of felt were similarly sewed.

w is the usual welt protruding backwardly from the seam.

The opposite or inner edges of the sheets a a are folded against thecorresponding edge of the leather piece a and inclosed be tween theedges of the leather covering of the roll B in the usual manner.

The filling of the pad and roll presents nothing new, except as theinner body or sheet of felt a may be regarded as a part of the filling.

The collar described, provided with the double thickness of felt on theface toward the shoulders of the horse, is found to present a sufficientbody of that absorbent material to eliectively take up the sweat ormoisture resulting from working the horse in the collar, which a singlesheet of commercial felt will not do. The double thickness of felt beingsufficient for the purpose stated, a greater thickness is unnecessary,and an ordinary and less expensive filling C may be employed.

A collar thus constructed has all the merit that can be obtained by theuse of felt as an absorbent without the cost attending the constructionof the entire pad of felt, as was proposed in a prior patent, No.393,251, granted to me November 20, 1888.

I claim as my invention- The horse-collar described, having the body orpad composed of the two layers of felt a a of unequal width, of whichthe outer layer a projects at its outer edge beyond the correspondingedge of the inner layer,and a sheet of leather or other suitablematerial a, having its outer edge stitched to the projecting edge ofsaid outer layer, and a central filling C, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

CHRISTOPHER MOLLENCOFF.

IVitnesses:

DAVID CLAXTON, WILLIAM MUTTON.

